[Info-vax] Problems restoring image-backup

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-06-29 00:46:08 +0000, lawrencedo99 at gmail.com said:

> On Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at 3:50:06 AM UTC+12, David Froble wrote:
>> Actually, I'd think BACKUP is BACKUP and would work, but perhaps not.
> 
> Too late now. This is why I don’t trust proprietary backup formats. Cf 
> my comments elsewhere about the simplicity and reliability of rsync.

rsync remotely synchronizes the specified directories.   If that's what 
you need for your backups, bully for you.   But rsync not a backup 
tool, short of a very large pile of custom code, and a whole lot of 
wasted storage on the target volumes if there's any depth of backups to 
be kept.



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